House Valbert

House Valbert City of Lennestadt Coordinates: 51 ° 10 ′ 35 ″  N , 8 ° 6 ′ 12 ″  E
Height :	339 m above sea level NHN
Residents :	4  (Jun 30, 2020)
Postal code :	57368
Location of Haus Valbert in Lennestadt
House Valbert

Haus Valbert is a small district of Lennestadt in the Olpe district in North Rhine-Westphalia .

Geographical location

In a side valley of the Elspe / Oenetal between Oberelspe and Oedingen , about 1 km above the confluence of the Kettlerbach is the old manor house Valbert. The house, built as a moat with a surrounding moat, was demolished. The successor building was rebuilt separately, but demolished at the end of the Second World War after the effects of the war. Today there is a half-timbered farmhouse with outbuildings.

The old moat was filled in and can only be seen today as a flat meadow.

history

Excerpt from the overview hand plan 1831

The bailiffs of the Oedingen church as well as the Oedingen dynasty were the lords of Oedingen as sub- bailiffs of the Counts of Arnsberg. Half of the Oedinger Vogtei and the Valbert estate came to the Arnsberg follower Dietrich Rump, who called himself after Oedingen (died before 1289), probably through his mother Gertrud von Oedingen, before 1279. The Rump (later: Rump von der Wenne) have remained the patron saints of the Oedinger Church to this day.

In the 15th and 16th centuries the estate was owned by the Rump family. On March 4, 1601, the heiress of the estate, Elisabeth Rump, married the electoral Cologne chamberlain Johann von Lintelo, son of Eberhard von Lintelo to measure in the county of Zutphen and Mechthild von der Vene. Kaspar von Fürstenberg, who was invited to the wedding, wrote a critical and thoroughly justified comment in his diary about the wedding. House Valbert was in debt. In the decades that followed, a dispute broke out between the Rump family and the von Lintelo family over the enfeoffment with half of the free-chair court in Oedingen. In 1628, Hermann Rump the Younger insisted on this loan, because the court had always belonged to the Wenne family. The inheritance of Johann von Lintelo went to his son Timann Dietrich von Lintelo in 1628, who married Susanna Spiegel zum Desenberg , a daughter of Hermann Spiegel zum Desenberg. This year Hermann Rump found that Colonel Timann Dietrich von Lintelo withheld half of the Oedingen free-chair court and had his rights recorded by a notary. Timann Dietrich von Lintelo had started a military career like his father and was already in 1628 in the rank of colonel of the imperial and league Lintelo regiment and only subordinated to the general Graf von Tilly . In February 1632 he and his troops moved to Wiedenbrück on the orders of Count von Pappenheim, but stormed and destroyed Borghausen Castle beforehand . In September 1632, Graf von Pappenheim received a lodging permit for accommodation in the Sayn - Wittgenstein counties. On June 9, 1635, von Lintelo and his entourage received a passport from Lieutenant General Field Marshal and Colonel Count Gallas for the trip to the counties of Nassau and Wittgenstein.

In June 1635 von Lintelo was murdered at Haus Valbert , presumably because of an act of revenge or to prevent the imperial cuirassiers from marching into the county of Nassau and Wittgenstein. His home was ransacked and his wife and children, as far as they were present, were left unmolested. This fact may have contributed to the fact that in the saga there is a report of a conspiracy between the wife and his enemies. According to a reference in the Vasbach archive, Count Ludwig Heinrich von Nassau-Dillenburg is said to have directed and led the plot. In any case, Herman Rump the Younger had a connection to the Nassau house through his cousin Johan Franz von Hanxleden , who was the court master of Count Johann Ludwig zu Nassau , uncle of the above-mentioned Ludwig Heinrich.

After the husband's death, Lintelo's widow was keen to settle the disputes over the half-free court. She waived all claims to the court in favor of Hermann Rump and appointed Dietherich von Esleben as the guardian of her underage children, who was enfeoffed with goods from Brenschede and Oedingen.

Susanna Spiegel died around 1672; Christian Ludwig von Lintelo, who was married to Margarethe Elisabeth von Schade, was the first to succeed. He died in the same year and his daughter became the next heir to the estate. She married Reinhardt Melcher von Buchholtz zu Valbert in the second half of the 17th century. The estate came to the von Ketteler family through his daughter in the 18th century. Baron Friedrich Ferdinand von Ketteler sold the Valbert estate in 1788 to Baron Clemens Lothar von Fürstenberg zu Herdringen .

Karl Joseph Schulte , who later became Bishop of Paderborn and Archbishop of Cologne, was born at Haus Valbert in 1871 .

The different spellings of Haus Valbert in the 15th to 17th centuries contain the forms "val (en)" or "var (en)". According to a more recent investigation of the place names in the Olpe district, these word components may be descriptions of the color impression (such as “pale”, “yellowish”) of the place marked with “-bert”. A coherent interpretation of the basic word “-bert” or the possibly older version “ -bracht ” does not seem possible. An interpretation found for Hessian places as “bald mountain” cannot be easily transferred to the Westphalian situation. The prefix “Haus-” in the place name is relatively young and describes the seat of the knight family Rump.

Say: Colonel von Lintloe's magic pants

Lindloe fountain in Oedingen

Jan von Lintloe, a well-known and much feared sergeant-general in Westphalia, who was well-known and much feared during the Thirty Years' War, once lived in Haus Valbert near Oedingen, the ancestral home of the von Lindloe family, which was later called Kettlers Platz. He was generally called the strong Lintloe, since no one was able to overcome him. With superhuman strength he combined ruthless hardness and numbness. He appropriated goods that did not belong to him and had no mercy on people in need. Even his noble wife suffered more and more from his cruelty. For many years it was a secret where Jan von Lintloe got his unusual strength from. One day his wife, who had given it away in a good mood, found out that all strength comes from magical trousers worn every day, similar to how Siegfried gained invisibility from the dwarf Albrich's cloak of invisibility. The many enemies of the gruesome colonel had long sought after his life. But they were too afraid of him until one day the wife of Lintloes, Susanna von Spiegel, revealed the secret of the magic trousers to them. She was also ready to let them know by playing the harp when he had taken off his magic pants. On the following Christmas Eve, the armed enemies hidden in the courtyard heard the lovely harp sounds of a Christmas carol from the bedroom. They stormed up and overcame the colonel before he could dress. They even murdered him without giving him time to convert and reconcile with God. Since that Christmas Eve the colonel has been wandering as a spook on Valbert's house, so frightening for the residents that he had to be banished to the nearby forest. Every year he is only allowed to get one foot closer to the Valbert family. The residents of the area hope that he will be released from his crime before he gets to the house. The Lintloe fountain on the historic hiking trail in nearby Oedingen is reminiscent of the legend of Jan von Lintloe.

literature

• Friedrich Albert Groeteken: Legends of the Sauerland. Glade, Schallenberg 1926, DNB 573565384
• Martin Vormberg: Dillenburg campaign on House Valbert. Background to looting and pillage in the Bilstein office in 1634/35. In: Voices from the Olpe district. Episode 192, p. 193ff.

Web links

Commons : Haus Valbert  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

swell

1. ^ Böhmer: Contributions to the history of the community Oedingen. P. 19.
2. ^ Archive Fürstenberg, Herdringen. File IV-7-6.
3. ^ Hömberg: noble seats and manors in the Duchy of Westphalia Issue 7, 1974.
4. ^ Arens: Chronicle of the parish of Oedingen. In: Voices from the Olpe district. 173, 1993, p. 246.
5. ↑ cf. Michael Flöer: The place names of the district of Olpe. Westphalian Place Name Book (WOB), Publishing House for Regional History, Bielefeld 2014, pp. 238, 239 u. 266.